Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:28:07 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator |
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Well, MODULE is not CONFIG_MODULES :) > > If compiling an object that is going to be statically linked to kernel, MODULE > is not defined, so we have shared objects. > > When compiling a module, we cannot *yet* use .data.percpu.shared_aligned > section, since module loader wont handle this section. > > Alternative is to change modules linking for all arches to merge > .data.percpu{*} subsections correctly, or tell module loader to take into > account all .data.percpu sections. > > AFAIK no module uses DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED() yet...
Ahhh. Makes sense. Add a comment to explain this?
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